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The way they talked about the proletariat, you'd think they were all the sons and daughters of iron pud- dlers, but the truth was, a surprisinglv large number of them came from fam- ilies that were either middle-class or upper-class and either very well-to-do or really quite rich. As time went on, I hegan to feel like a stranger among them. It wasn't so much their politics that bothered me, beyond the fact that politics of an} kind bores the living hell out of me; it was the self-important way they talked about politics. As much as anything else, It was the way the) said 'we.' Instead of 'I think this' or 'I think that,' it was always 'W {' think this' or 'W r think that.' I couldn't get used to the 'we.' I began to feel intimi- dated hy it. Once, trying to make a joke and lIghten the atmosphere, I blurted out to one of them that I belonged to a party that had only one memher and the name of it was the] oe Gould Party. 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